Manager Kong cleared his throat and said in a consultative tone: "Comrade Xiaolin, can you write another letter to the newspaper and tell them that we have acknowledged our mistakes and corrected them."
Lin Mai nodded: "Okay, but I won't write until after the New Year. I don't have time before then."
If you have time to respond to problems, but don’t have time to say a few nice words, who will believe you!
But even if he didn't believe it, Manager Kong didn't dare to expose it. He just repeatedly told Lin Mai not to forget it.
As soon as Manager Kong and the salesperson left, Lin Mai picked up the gift from Manager Kong and took Doudou back to Simei Town.
As for the gift from the salesperson, Lin Mai planned to leave it to Doudou. She was probably so old that she had never had milk powder and malted milk, so she should drink some too.
Trains do not leave at all times, so you have to wait for the train.
Long-distance passenger transport runs every half an hour. If you are in a hurry, long-distance passenger transport is the first choice.
In order to return to the countryside as soon as possible to buy chickens and eggs, Lin Mai gritted his teeth and spent a fare of 1.5 yuan to take the long-distance bus back to Simei Town with Doudou. You know, the train only costs 1 yuan.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Mai and her daughter came to Grandpa Fang's house carrying gifts.
Grandpa Fang was basking in the sun at the door and chatting with his neighbors. He saw her mother and daughter from a distance, and shouted excitedly into the house: "Old lady, Maizi and Doudou are back!"
Grandma Fang immediately ran out of the house, and Lin Mai and Doudou shouted together: "Hello, Grandma!"
"Hello, grandma!"
"Okay, okay!" Grandma Fang was extremely happy, "All the goods are sold out, so you are back?"
"Yes!" Lin Mai nodded heavily, smiled and entered the house with the two elderly people, borrowed flowers and offered them to Buddha, and placed the gifts from the gift manager on the table.
Those gifts include milk powder, brown sugar, malted milk, some high-end pastries, tobacco and alcohol.
Grandma Fang said angrily: "Last time you asked Grandpa Fang to bring milk powder back, and then you bought it again!"
In this era, malted milk is already a high-end luxury product, and milk powder is more expensive than malted milk. Grandma Fang was reluctant to spend money on Lin Mai, so she scolded her.
Grandpa Fang also said seriously: "You have already spent a lot of money buying down jackets for me and your Grandma Fang. Stop spending money randomly and keep the money to buy a house."
Lin Mai smiled and said: "I have already earned the money to buy the house. I came back this time to collect some chickens and eggs to sell in the city."
Grandma Fang murmured in disappointment: "I still have to go to the city to do business, so I won't be able to come back for the New Year?"
Lin Mai hurriedly said: "If I can get it back, I will sell it for the whole day tomorrow and half the day after tomorrow. I will definitely come back before the New Year's dinner."
As soon as Grandpa Fang heard this, he was about to go out: "I will help you collect the chickens and eggs."
Lin Mai stopped him with a smile: "I haven't told grandpa the purchase price yet."
"Look how impatient I am!" Grandpa Fang laughed, "What price did you pay for it?"
Lin Mai asked about the selling price of chickens and eggs at the market in the town, and added 20% to the original selling price.
Grandma Fang worried: "Can you make money by buying it at such a high price?"
Lin Mai nodded confidently: "Yes."
The black market prices for these chickens, ducks, fish, and eggs in the city are ridiculously high, and they are still unavailable. What does her purchase price mean?
Grandpa Fang said: "With such a high purchase price, all we need to do is beat gongs and drums and walk around the surrounding villages, and they will take the initiative to deliver the goods to your door. We don't have to go to the door to collect it."
Lin Mai immediately made arrangements: "Then grandpa will help me rent a tractor, and I will go to the surrounding villages to call and ask the villagers to deliver the goods to my door."
The two soldiers divided into two groups.
Lin Mai came to the first village and reported her purchase price. Sure enough, the villagers were all excited and wanted to sell their chickens and eggs to her.
Lin Mai asked them to go to Grandpa Fang's house to sell it to her in an hour. Now she has to go to several villages.
A shrewd villager volunteered to notify her, but the condition was that he had to buy two of his goats.
Lin Mai nodded: "As long as it's healthy, I'll take it."
Raising sheep in rural areas of this generation is rare. Even if they raise sheep, they are still raising goats. No one raises sheep.
The goats are not that big, so it doesn’t matter if you only have two.
Someone informed her that Lin Mai no longer had to run errands and asked the villagers to go to Grandpa Fang's house to sell chickens and eggs to her now. She would wait for them at Grandpa Fang's house.
When she rushed back to Grandpa Fang's house, some villagers who were faster than her were already holding two chickens in one hand and a basket of eggs in the other, and they lined up in front of Grandpa Fang's house.
Country hens cost about one pound for a hen, and about one and a half pounds for a male. The purchase price for a hen is 1.2 yuan per jin, for one piece for a rooster, and 5 cents for an egg.
In addition to keeping two hundred yuan in case of emergency, Lin Mai used all the remaining money to collect goods. He collected more than 800 roosters and hens, 2,000 eggs, and five goats.
Although only two goats were reserved, there was a poor household who wanted to sell her goats to Lin Mai. In order to help him, Lin Mai made an exception and bought his goats.
Lin Mai was busy receiving goods at the door of Grandpa Fang's house, while Aunt Wu stood watching from a distance with envy.
But she was jealous because she didn't have the guts to take her son and daughter-in-law to the black market in the city to sell chickens and eggs.
I heard that if you are caught doing business on the black market, you will go to jail. Even if you are not caught, the black market is a mixed bag, and the money you make is either robbed or stolen. How can she dare to go!
Aunt Wu gnashed her teeth in her heart and cursed Lin Mai that even if he made money on the black market, he would be stolen or robbed. It would be better if he was caught and he could spend a few years in prison.
Lin Mai received the goods from ten o'clock to six o'clock, and finally finished collecting the goods.
The villagers who came later had no money to collect their goods, so those villagers could only leave in anger.
Grandma Fang has already prepared dinner, including fish and meat.
Grandma Fang asked Lin Mai to eat more fish and meat, and apologized: "I was late, so I only bought tenderloin."
Lin Mai was eager to eat lean meat.
After hurriedly finishing dinner, Lin Mai packed the collected eggs into two large baskets, layered with eggs and layered with straw, to prevent them from being broken due to bumps during transportation tomorrow morning.
Although the chickens that the villagers sold her were bundled, she checked them again and tied the chickens that were not tied firmly again, for fear that any chickens that were not tied tightly would fly away on the road.
After finishing their work, Lin Mai and Doudou took a shower and went to bed.
Tomorrow at five o'clock in the morning I will take a tractor to the city to sell goods.
This time she would not take Doudou with her when selling goods. She had to do business and take care of her children. She was too busy, so Doudou agreed.
Lin Mai got up at 4:30 the next morning. As soon as he finished washing up, the tractor master drove the tractor.
Grandpa and grandma Fang also got up, helped Lin Mai load the goods onto the tractor, watched them go away, and then went back to the house to sleep.
At five o'clock in the winter, it was very dark, and both the tractor master and Lin Mai were on high alert.
Although they were taking a national highway, and it was not too far from the provincial capital, so security was good, but it was only during the day.
From eight o'clock in the evening to six o'clock in the morning, it is difficult to ensure public security, and there are robbers on the national highway.
Although robbers generally only rob money but not lives, the tractor master can stay out of it, but Grandpa Fang asked him to deliver Lin Mai safely to the city, so he had to do his best.
When the tractor drove to a section called Xiaogang, a disheveled woman suddenly ran out and shouted for help. The shrill voice was particularly frightening in the silent night.